Justin Bieber Arrested for Drag Racing, DUI, in Miami Beach

TMZ has been all over this story, via We Smirch.

See also London's Daily Mail, "What a performance! Justin Bieber waves for cameras as he is released on $2,500 bail after spraying cops with F-word during DUI arrest."

And at LAT, "Justin Bieber arrested on suspicion of DUI after drag race, police say," and "Justin Bieber's Miami Beach arrest is more culmination than aberration":

Justin Bieber's arrest after police say he drag-raced on a Miami Beach street and failed a sobriety test arrives less as a shock than a kind of inevitable conclusion: the culmination of nearly two years of chafing against the burden of his own celebrity.
"It's hard to hear all this news about @JustinBieber," talk show host Ellen DeGeneres tweeted Thursday. "I hope he makes his way to adulthood without him or anyone else getting hurt."

The singer's brief incarceration Thursday morning — not to mention a grinning mug shot that seems sure to redefine Bieber in the public imagination — comes less than two months after "The Fast and the Furious" star Paul Walker was killed in a fiery single-car accident in Valencia.

In the last year, Bieber, 19, has been dogged by numbingly constant tales of his bad-boy behavior — reported visits to strip clubs and a brothel in Brazil, urinating in a mop bucket at a New York restaurant and leaping from a van to physically confront paparazzi in London — all in an apparent turn away from his carefully manicured teen star image.

And in what until now had been Bieber's most egregious violation of celebrity protocol, Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies served a felony search warrant at his Calabasas home earlier this month looking for evidence that Bieber allegedly tossed eggs at a neighbor's home, causing $20,000 in damage (the performer's friend, rapper Lil Za, was arrested during the search on drug possession charges).

While Bieber largely refrained from commenting on his tabloid foibles and whatever growing pains he may be experiencing, a recent concert documentary, "Justin Bieber's Believe," chronicles the star's bumpy transition from apple-cheeked tween heartthrob to a headstrong pop stalwart with a burgeoning awareness of his shelf life as the Top 40's harem-pants-wearing pied piper.

"A lot of people want me to fail," Bieber is shown saying in "Believe."

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